I’m not sure how come that I can feel nostalgic about the times I’ve never actually lived in. However, for some reason I feel jealous of the people who were young in 60’s 🙂 Movies from that era are my huge fetish, so I chose some of them and wanted to share with you some trivia about them.

-To give a more detached, spontaneous quality, Jean-Luc Godard fed the actors their line as scenes were being filmed.
-Jean-Paul Belmondo was very surprised by the warm reception the film received. Immediately after production he was convinced it was so badthat he thought the film would never be released.
-Jean-Luc Godard did not have finished script at the begiinning, instead writing scenes in the morning and filming them that day.

-The film was originally going to be shot in color. Bette opposed this, saying that it would just make a sad story look pretty.

-In her book “This N’ That”, Bette Davis said she had a lot of control over how her makeup should be done for the film. She imagined the older Jane as someone who would never wash her face, just put on another layer of makeup. When her daughter, Barbara Merrill, first saw her in full “Jane” makeup, she said, “Oh, mother, this time you’ve gone too far”.

-Although many critics felt that Paul Newman was miscast as Ari Ben Canaan, director Otto Preminger maintained that he had envisioned only Newman playing the part from the time he read the novel.

-At the film’s premiere, as the movie neared its third hour with the end not yet in sight, comedian Mort Sahl stood up from his seat in the packed theater and shouted, “Otto, let my people go!” The incident quickly became a popular piece of Hollywood lore.

-In Jean-Luc Godard’s picture “Une femme est une femme”, Jeanne Moureau appears as herself. This becomes obvious because Jean/Paul Belmondo’s character, while meeting her at a café, asks her: “How is ‘Jules And Jim’ coming?” Truffaut and Godard were friends at the time, and often collaborated in each other’s movies.

Original novel was based on his own experiences as a young man. The original Catherine was still alive when the film was released and even attended the premiere incognito.

-Jeanne Moureau had to jump into a river because her stunt double turned up drunk. Moreau then had to spend 2 days ill in bed.

-Henri Serre was an unknown actor performing comedy in a club when he was cast as Jim. He was cast because of his physical resemblance to Henri Pierre Roche.

-When Jim first visits Jules’ home in Austria, Catherine shows him a picture of Jules costumed as Mozart. Oskar Werner, the actor who plays Jules, also portrayed Mozart in an earlier film.

Truffaut was greatly saddened when Henri-Pierre Roché died before he could see how Truffaut filmed his novel.

-Oscar Werner was cast because Truffaut wanted someone who spoke French with a slow delivery.

-Many people believe that this is an Alfred Hitchckok’s film. He was not involved in the making of the film at all. This confusion has prompted fans of the film to call it “the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made”.

-According to Audrey Hepbrun, the scene where Regina spills ice cream on Adam’s suit is based on a real-life accident where Hepburn spilled red wine over Carry Grant’s suit at a dinner party.

-Cary Grant, who celebrated his 59th birthday during filming, decided it was time to stop playing the romantic lead after reviews focused on the 26-year age difference between him and Audrey Hepburn.

-After finishing this film, Cary Grant was quoted as saying, “All I want for Christmas is to make another movie with ,” Although this Audrey Hepburn sadly never happened.

-It was agreed that Cary Grant would not remove his shirt in the shower scene since he was nearly sixty and slightly overweight.

-During the dance game in the nightclub you see briefly in the background smoking a cigarette Audrey Hepburn’s husband Mel Ferrer.

-The character of Peter Joshua was named after director’s two sons: Peter and Joshua.

-Filmed virtually back-to-back with Paris-when it sizzles.

-In the scene in which Audrey Hepburn spills ice cream on Cary Grant’s suit, she uses the term “assassination” and he uses the term “assassin.” The movie was in release shortly after the Kennedy assassination in Dallas and Universal was so worried about audience reaction to this dialog.

-Baxter is just a poor accountant. But inside his apartment are two authentic Tiffany Studios lamps, worth hardly anything when the film was made, but now worth between $30,000 and $40,000 each.

-Shirley MacLaine was only given forty pages of the script because Wilder didn’t want her to know how the story would turn out. She thought it was because the script wasn’t finished.

-Paul Douglas was cast as Sheldrake but died before filming began. He died from a heart attack while eating breakfast in New York just before he was to fly out to the Coast for filming.

-Billy claimed that he already had Jack Lemmon in mind to play Baxter when they wrote the screenplay.

-The office Christmas party scene was actually filmed on December 23, 1959, so as to catch everybody in the proper holiday mood. Billy filmed almost all of it on the first take, stating to an observer, “I wish it were always this easy. Today, I can just shout ‘action’ and stand back.”

-Godard said of Pierrot Le Fou that “it is not really a film, it’s an attempt at cinema.

-Despite continual claims that Godard shot the majority of his films without scripts or preparation, actress Anna Karina has subsequently claimed that they were in fact very carefully planned out to the smallest of details.

-Godard originally wanted to shoot the film in English with Richard Barton and Sylvie Vartan as the two main characters.